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NavSource Online:Submarine Chaser Photo Archive

U.S. Army Artillery Steamer V-5ex-USS SC-267

Call sign:George - Cast - Fox - Jig

SC-267 served both the U. S. Navy and Army

SC-1 Class Submarine Chaser:

Laid down by George Lawley and Sons, Neponset, MA

Commissioned USS SC-267, 5 April 1918

She was assigned to the First Naval District (northeastern New England) for the rest of World War I, and for several months following the 11 November 1918 Armistice

Transferred to the War Department 18 September 1919 and reclassified as Artillery Steamer, V-5

Photo from "The Cinderellas of the Fleet" by LTJG William Washburn Nutting, Construction Corps, USNRF

Joe Radigan

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Alongside a pier at Wakefield, Massachusetts, circa 1918-1919. The freighter Clio is on the pier's other side. This may be the same ship that briefly served as USS Clio (ID 2578) in April 1918.
Photographed by Alton H. Blackinton, Boston, Massachusetts.U.S. Navy photo NH 41990